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Before couple of days I received the good news that I passed the “Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 5 Enterprise Architect certification”.
The story begins in December 2010 when I took the first part of the exam.
I relied on my hands-on experience in java, Design patterns, web component, EJB.
I just read “Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java™ EE Study Guide”.

By the way , at that time I had SCJP, SCBCD 5, SCWCD.
so it was a great challenge to try to get the most valuable certificate in Java which is the Architect certificate.

in April 2011, I returned back to the assignment , in 2 weeks the assignment was done.
in general the assignment is simple, but there are some details you need to take care about.
I worked on assignment using Visio, then exported the diagrams to html pages as they requested, then i packaged the html pages to jar file.
before sending the assignment , you need to finish part2, I went to exam center I answered around 7 questions, mainly the questions about how your design handle security, scalability , maintainability,…. and if there is a use to Enterprise Java Beans and why,…

21 April – I sent the assignment
25 April – I received the confirmation about receiving the assignment, they informed me it needs 6-8 weeks to be graded.
30 May – I sent them an email asking about any updates regarding the result.
2 June – OCP team apologized for the delay , and they told me they may need another 2-3 weeks.
21 June – I sent them any updates email …
22 June – OCP team apologized for the delay!
1 July – I recieved email that I passed the exam.

It was a nice challenge to work on this certificate, what do you think :) ?

Hi Cenna,
preparation for exam depends on your knowledge and experience, if you were exposed to web frameworks and concepts, EJB , design patterns… this will make you life easier in preparing to exam.

I highly recommend reading:
Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java™ EE Study Guide (Mark Cade and Humphrey Sheil Upper).
while reading if you read about a something which you are not familiar with . you can google it to understand more .

1) I have not done any Oracle certification. I have 2 yrs experience on web frameworks and concepts and EJB. Any oracle certifications is necessary for taking up this course? Am I eligible to take this course? With 2 yrs experience, will I be able to complete it successfully?

2) 3yrs experience and OCM certificate is enough to become an architect?

Hi.. Can you share what was the assignment in Part 2?
If you cannot share, atleast please give an idea about what type of assignment is it. Does it concentrate on designing part only with UML or do we have to develop a complete web application?